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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery "presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users."

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Argues that Kruszewski's major work Ocerk nauki o jazyke ('An Outline of the Science of Language) had the potential to be seminal to the field, but because of historical factors, including his early death and the simultaneous consolidation of the Neo-grammarian paradigm, this did not happen.